How Preparing My Mind and Body Led to a Powerful Unmedicated First Birth - Savvy Jardine

I think my water just broke. I felt like things really intensify. She was right there and she was coming. It was it was an amazing feeling.

I'm going to cry just thinking about it. I could feel her head. We heard her cry. We were squeezing hands and she was screaming.

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Today's birth story guest is Sabi and she had a hospital birth. That was her first birth. It was an unmedicated birth. All right, let's hear from Savvy.

Hi, Savvy. Welcome to the birth hour. Thanks for coming on the podcast. Hi, Bryn.

Thank you so much for having me. I am just honored to be able to share my story on here. I listen to episodes prepping for my own birth and it's just really cool that I get to be on the other side of it talking about my own.

Yeah. Well, I'm excited to get to your story, but before we do that, can you tell listeners a little bit about you and your family? Of course.

So, yeah. is Savvy. I'm from Utah, but I ended up giving birth in the Bay Area, California. My husband and I moved out here for work and upon moving we got pregnant. So I spent my pregnancy here and was super grateful to have such a positive birth experience in California. Awesome. Well, let's

go ahead and talk about how your pregnancy went and then the preparation you did for your birth. them. Yeah. So like I said, I am a first time mom. This was my first pregnancy. And so you don't really know what to expect. And I was one of those people that unfortunately was really sick. The first half of pregnancy, you know, you kind of hear the stories about how your mom's

pregnancies were. And one thing that, you know, I learned is we're not always the same as our mom. And lucky for me, my mom was sick the entire time of being pregnant with me. And And so I kind of had prepared myself that that might be my story too.

But at about the halfway mark, I turned a corner and I was seriously so grateful honestly for the challenge at the beginning because it made the second half of my pregnancy

so much more smooth. I was so grateful every day to be able to have more energy, to be able to work out. I had a stronger appetite, which was really nice.

and I was really able to enjoy the last half of my pregnancy and prepare for birth, which was really important to me ever since finding out that I was pregnant. When it came to birth, I really felt drawn

to an unmedicated birth. But with this being my first pregnancy,